Quotes About God Sabbath

#1. It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.

Priscilla Shirer

#2. 13Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God.

Anonymous

#3. A life built upon Sabbath is contented because in rhythms of rest we discover our time is full of the holiness of God.

Shelly Miller

#4. God is most great! Allahu akbar! God is most great!" and sending the most faithful grimly shuffling through the dusky, unlit streets to salat al-'isha, the evening prayer. The Sabbath

Brian Catlos

#5. His soul was shaped by the cadence of Sabbath keeping and seasonal festivals that were intended to help Him and all people to remember God's faithfulness, protection, and provision.

Stephen W. Smith

#6. When you abide with God in Sabbath, an unshakable confidence shines from the inside out, enticing others toward the gift of rest as well.

Shelly Miller

#7. Safely through another week, GOD has brought us on our way, Let us now a blessing seek On th' approaching sabbath-day:

John Newton

#8. Sabbath is the practice of letting life rest safely in God's hand.41

Walter Brueggemann

#9. On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.

Mark Driscoll

#10. An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

C.S. Lewis

#11. I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#12. See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

Dallas Willard

#13. God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

John Donne

#14. Rest shows us who God is. He has restraint. Restraint is refraining from doing everything that one has the power to do. We must never mistake God's restraint for weakness. The opposite is true. God shows restraint; therefore, restraint is holy.

Matthew Sleeth

#15. Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

Thomas Carlyle

#16. God's creation is a life-giving inhale for all of us, and Sabbath is the exhale.

Shelly Miller

#17. Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

Russell M. Nelson

#18. Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

Gerald Heaney

#20. Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home - these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

Rachel Held Evans

#21. The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#22. Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. We could call the second problem with the current Sabbath vogue the fallacy of the direct object. Whom is the contemporary Sabbath designed to honor? Whom does it benefit? In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

Lauren F. Winner

#24. God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Charles R. Swindoll

#25. When we trust God by taking our hands off our work, what we give up through Sabbath ultimately benefits those around us.

Shelly Miller

#26. The Muslims observe their Sabbath on Friday, the Jews observe on Saturday, and the Christians on Sunday. By the time Monday rolls around God is completely f***in' worn out.

George Carlin

#27. Sabbath becomes a decisive, concrete, visible way of opting for and aligning with the God of rest.

Walter Brueggemann

#28. If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

Eugene H. Peterson

#29. As we wait, God reveals his purpose in the preparations he is doing within us, and our hopeful outlook is the result.

Shelly Miller

#30. Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man

Sunday Adelaja

#31. Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

James M. Barrie

#32. Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life.

Shelly Miller

#33. Thank God for the solitude of the Sabbath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

Marva J. Dawn